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Tremissis - Moneyer Paulinus Ailirubrias
| Issuer | Paulinus |
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| Year | 620-640 |
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| Value | 1 Tremissis (⅓) |
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| Reverse description | A prominent cross pattée with an anchored or stepped base, set upon a globus, centrally placed in the field with two pellets flanking the lower arm of the cross. The surrounding legend names the moneyer Paulinus. The design follows the standard Merovingian tremissis reverse type derived from late Byzantine prototypes, executed in hammered gold with characteristic irregular flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Merovingian trientes of this period were struck not by royal authority but by independent moneyers operating under their own names — a system so decentralized that hundreds of distinct moneyer-mint combinations are known, many attested by a single surviving coin. Paulinus Ailirubrias falls into that category of near-phantom figures: the name survives only on the coinage itself, with no corroborating documentary evidence.
Belfort 61 is among the rarer attributions in the series.